Before start: dear "no one goes to movies for the science" crowd (read: White men in my MTs): too bad. That's what this thread is about.
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Friends, it's time for Bad Science Film #badscifilm where we explore #sociology of science on film. Tonight: Life.
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Life is about 6 scientists from International Space Station (ISS) who collect a sample from Mars. Good idea? WRONG! Bad idea!
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Ekaterina Golovkina (Olga Dihovichnaya) is the Russian commader. She dies valiantly b/c
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Dr Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson) is Centre for Disease Control security specialist. Wisely reminds us Mars organisms=bad idea
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Mostly we're spared forced romance bore until the end when Dr David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) grabs Dr North's face 20,000 times
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Dr North is freezing because she's a human in the middle of SPACE & an ALIEN is loose & Dr Jordan is in her face like a jerk!
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That's all for women: 2/6 crew. White women fare ok; both are smart. No
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Rory Adams (Ryan Reynolds) all-American engineer/pilot tells us more than once he's a working class kid. Time to die horribly.
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Sho Murakami (Hiroyuki Sanada), Japanese system engineer, helps his wife give birth using space Skype. He should die needlessly.
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Sanada has seen a scientist 3 times & been to space twice; last as Captain of the Icarus. His academic career is in tatters.
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Dr Hugh Derry (Ariyon Bakare), Black British exobiologist, is disabled. This is treated with respect for 5 seconds until ableism
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Bakare is excellent. His character is very important. But he is not disabled. Casting able-bodied pple in these roles is crap.
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Dr Derry is obsessed with aliens because ableism: Mars organism maybe can cure Derry's "condition"! (Which is never specified.)
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Dr Derry is pivotal to mission; others note that no one else in the world can do what he does. He's treated with respect. Good.
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But Dr Derry also gives a speech about aliens providing replacement for stem cells & how he hates his wheelchair. ABLEISM.
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Dr Derry grows fond of "single cell organism" found on Mars, which is named Calvin by kids on Earth. I misheard it as Marvin
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Final crew member is Dr David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) American medical officer. He was a pilot in some war. He's sad about that
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Dr Jordan haunted by building bridges "in Syria" which are then bombed. Syrians can't keep nice things Americans give them.
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Dr Jordan refers to people on Earth as "those motherf***s" & prefers to be in space. Guess who lives longest? The sad White man!
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The ISS crew gets alien sample which does nothing much. Boring! Dr Derry experiments randomly while still in space, as one does.
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